Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Colour Sergeant W. C. F. Fry, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation II, Royal Marines
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately engraved ‘PO/X 102842 C/Sgt. W. C. F. Fry. M.N.D.O. II’, mounted court-style, good very fine

Three: Attributed to Marine G. Austin, Royal Marines
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Admiralty enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr G. Austin, 76 Garden Cottages, Maidenhead, Berks.’, extremely fine (9) £60-£80

William C. F. Fry was born in Reading, Berkshire, in 1917. He worked as an Electrical Engineer at Reading Railway Works before he was called up in 1941 to serve during the Second War with the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation II, Royal Marines. Initially based on Hayling Island, this unit was deployed for air and coast defence of the U.K. in 1942-43 before embarking for the Middle East in 1943. Fry served in North Africa and then in Sicily under the command of the Eighth Army. He also saw service in the Low Countries. He died in Reading, Berkshire, in 2002.

Sold with a Royal Marines shoulder title; four original photographs of the recipient wearing his medals in later life; and copied research.